On the road
by Jack Kerouac
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Story of two restless young men in the late 1940s who cross and recross America, encountering parties, girls, drugs, loneliness and their own dreams along the way.
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Beat generation, Fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Beat generation in literature, History and criticism, American Autobiographical fiction, Literature, Classic Literature, Beat generation -- Fiction, Beats (Persons), Bohemianism, Drugs, Jazz, Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969, Literature - Classics / Criticism, Literature: Classics, Classics, Fiction / Literary, Page proofs (Printing), Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, NOVELAS ESTADOUNIDENSES, American fiction (fictional works by one author), English language, Study guides, Examinations, Beats (Persons) in literature, New York Times reviewed, Criticism and interpretation, On the road (Kerouac, Jack), Beatniks, Romans, nouvelles, American fiction, Translations into Chinese, American literature, Literary, Audio - Fiction - General, Audio Adult: Books On Tape, GeneralPlaces
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On the Road: The Original Scroll (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
August 2008, Penguin classics
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Described as everything from a "last gasp" of romantic fiction to a founding text of the Beat Generation movement, this story amounts to a nonfiction novel (as critics were later to describe some works). Unpublished writer buddies wander from coast to coast in search of whatever they find, eager for experience. Kerouac's spokesman is Sal Paradise (himself) and real-life friend Neal Casady appears as Dean Moriarty.
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